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Red Hat saved Cygnus

Red Hat saved Cygnus

Posted Jul 28, 2007 14:48 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Red Hat saved Cygnus by JoeBuck
Parent article: Linux companies that didn't deserve to die (Linux-Watch)

They did deemphasize the embedded systems business, which is too bad; there was perhaps a synergy there that Red Hat didn't exploit that allowed other companies like MontaVista to take over the embedded Linux space.

Embedded space wanted (and still want) closeable systems and that's not what RedHat wanted and wants. I think few years down the road there will be opportunity for the RedHat to reenter this space, but what they did after Cygnus acquisition was 100% correct.


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